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"Get Your Kicks on) Route 66" is a popular rhythm and blues song, composed in 1946 by American songwriter Bobby Troup. The lyrics relate a westward roadtrip on U.S. Route 66, a highway which traversed the western two-thirds of the U.S. from Chicago, Illinois, to Los Angeles, California.
Robert William Troup Jr. (October 18, 1918 – February 7, 1999) was an American actor, jazz pianist, singer, and songwriter. He is best known as the composer of the rhythm and blues standard "(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66" and for the role of Dr. Joe Early with his wife Julie London in the television program Emergency! in the 1970s.
"South America, Take It Away" was written for Call Me Mister, a 1946 Broadway revue that touches on the post-war infatuation with Latin and Latin-American music and culture in the United States, which would go on to spawn and influence numerous hit songs throughout the latter half of the 1940s and early 50s.
“Historic Route 66 is the quintessential American experience,” explains Ken Busby, executive director and CEO of Route 66 Alliance, a nonprofit organization in Tulsa, Oklahoma dedicated to the ...
"Don't Let It Go to Your Head" "I Know That You Know" "Blame It on My Youth" "When I Grow Too Old to Dream" "(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66" Bonus tracks (taken from the same 1956 recording sessions): "I Was a Little Too Lonely (And You Were a Little Too Late)" (Evans, Livingston) – 3:02 "You Can Depend on Me" (Carpenter, Dunlap, Hines) – 3:55
Oklahoma Department of Tourism and Recreation released an updated Oklahoma Route 66 Passport.
A cover version of the Bobby Troup song "(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66" features on the single as a B-side. Martin Gore states that he chose the song because he "thought it would be a good idea to record a driving song on the B-side of 'Behind the Wheel'". It was remixed by the Beatmasters and was made up from elements of "Behind the Wheel". [4]
Now, the names of all 66 songs he wrote about have been revealed, thanks to the dissemination of a table-of-contents page for the highly anticipated book, which comes […]